Emil Nolde - Abendliche Marschlandschaft mit Heudiemen, ca.1935-40. Aquarell

 EMIL NOLDE

Abendliche Marschlandschaft mit Heudiemen, Um 1935/1940.

Aquarell

Object description

Evening marshland with hay thongs . Around 1935/1940.
Watercolor.
Signed lower right. On Japan. 34.2 x 47.3 cm (13.4 x 18.6 in), the full sheet.

With a photo expertise from Dr. Manfred Reuther, Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation, dated February 21, 2009.

PROVENANCE: Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation (until 1966).
Großhennig Gallery, Düsseldorf.
Art dealer Alfred Lochte & Co., Hamburg (around 1979-1975).
Private collection, Hamburg.
Private collection South Germany.

"I longed for high, open air, for austere, strong beauty, as the west coast, with its wide span of the sky and the clouds over marshland and water, gives it so lavishly, especially in the rough seasons."
Emil Nolde, quoted from: Manfred Reuther, Landscapes, Gardens and Seas - Nolde's Creation from Color, p. 125ff, in: A. Husslein-Arco / S. Koja, Emil Nolde. In glow and color, 2014.

essay

The endless expanse of the marshland and the powerful play of colors in the changing formations of landscape and sky impressed Nolde throughout his life and are what make his watercolors so special today. Especially in the technique of watercolor, in which Nolde achieved a singular mastery, this unbounded landscape experience can be artistically implemented in a special way through the blurring contours of the wet-on-wet technique. And so it is precisely these smooth transitions in combination with the expressive coloring that characterize the present composition. In the nuanced green of the fields With the purple-blue of the hay belts and the glowing yellow of the setting sun, Nolde captured this fleeting impression of the landscape on paper and, with the exceptionally eccentric coloring of the sheet, emancipated himself not only from the color of the object, but also from the color of the depicted. Nolde went well beyond what he saw. The changing light moods of his North Frisian homeland have inspired Nolde to constantly new color experiments. In his landscape watercolors in particular, Nolde has thus achieved an impressive symbiosis of perceived closeness to nature and deliberate abstraction. [JS] The changing light moods of his North Frisian homeland have inspired Nolde to constantly new color experiments. In his landscape watercolors in particular, Nolde has thus achieved an impressive symbiosis of perceived closeness to nature and deliberate abstraction. [JS] The changing light moods of his North Frisian homeland have inspired Nolde to constantly new color experiments. In his landscape watercolors in particular, Nolde has thus achieved an impressive symbiosis of perceived closeness to nature and deliberate abstraction. [JS]